Jonathan Levine

Jonathan Levine is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (jlevine@umich.edu). He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

A long tradition in urban planning seeks land use arrangements that reduce the need for travel, especially drive-alone travel. Current variations on this idea in the United States include jobs-housing balancing (locating jobs and housing nearby one another), transit villages (dense, mixed-use urban development with medium to high-rise housing concentrated near transit stops), and New Urbanism (a less dense, neighborhood form focusing on pedestrianism, transit, and mixed land uses).